One Dreadful Day
...As spring showers soaked through to my soft skin,
In hapless home in youthful age akin,
Through stabbing sorrow's sleeplessness I knew,
I grappled grief as fantom fears came true.
He was gone, gr...
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Categories:
fantom, mother, rain, sad love,
Form: Alliteration
Days of Old 2
...I think that it's easier to go forward if on occasions one recalls back THEN,
A simpler place and time, an era, a period, a generation of 'remember WHENS'. We start our stories with the likes of, "W...
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Categories:
fantom, childhood, family, history,
Form: Rhyme
Dirty Hands
...Dirty Hands
My white hands are dirty
Even if I don’t realize
My burdens light like my skin
I haven’t had the same trials
The house I live in
my manicured life
The things I don’t have to th...
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Categories:
fantom, angst, conflict, courage, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
A Taste
...I tasted your soul last night.
It left your essence to linger on my tongue.
Not to mention the scent that dances bare
there About my upper lip.
Or your aura’s nectar that has stained my mou...
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Categories:
fantom, desire, dream, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Femme En Feu
...Tearing through the dandelions she goes,
With acrid scent and smokey tendrils,
A flame incandescent that none dare oppose;
Blackened with soot—devoid of soul,
Behind the guile of beauty she ...
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Categories:
fantom, corruption, fire, love,
Form: Rhyme
Hard Times Come Easy
...Hard times seem to eat us alive,
We go thru changes.
Changes that we can't explain, or even fantom.
We hang on to those hard times and memories we make.
Even if we know someday all these hard tim...
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Categories:
fantom, me,
Form: Free verse
Meet Me At the Square
...Meet me at the square
That is what I continue to hear
Meet me at the square before the close of the year
I know that your calendar is full
But create an extra page for me
So that we can meet fac...
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Categories:
fantom, angel, appreciation, business, change,
Form: Narrative
The Morning of the Hurricanes Part 1
...The Bishops bathe in Babylon
while Princes, prancing on the lawn,
watch Queen deflowered, pale and wan.
The King dares not defend her.
The Horsemen, holding broken reins
the Morning ...
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Categories:
fantom, fantasy, morning,
Form: Rhyme